Young adults don’t want to work on a construction site, and rightly so. It’s the worst place to construct a building. Today, young people have a far wider choice of their workplace, and working in a rough environment like a construction site probably is not one of them.
Site built construction over past decade has become the domain of recent legal and illegal immigrant workers. No real language barrier, low pay, long hours and in many cases they are paid under the table.
So what type of house construction attracts our young adults? Modular!
Site building contractors have a lack of skilled carpenters, plumbers, electricians and so on, while many modular factories have a waiting list of young people looking to work in a warm place in the winter and dry during the summer rains.
Ask yourself a question, how many Automotive engineers or mechanics work in a car plant?
The answer is probably none because all the work involved in those elements is now an automated process handled by people who have a different skill entirely.
So by creating a work environment that is safe, warm, with good facilities and has a roof over it, this makes it far more appealing for Young adults to work in a better environment-a modular factory.
For this to work though the Modular Home industry has to have more support of not just builders, but also the new home buyer. Any product manufactured in a factory regardless of what it is will always be of better quality than one manufactured on site, so it’s in the industry’s best interests to promote it to new home buyers.
We can encourage Young adults to take up new skills, based on a factory environment. Offsite manufacturing in Construction is the future, not just for Young people, but for the generations to come. We don’t need tradespeople any more, we need factory technicians working in a modular factory.
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